District 31 Board Drops Several Programs Amid Enrollment Decline
District 31 men aged board votes to discontinue several programs due to falling enrollment. Industrial drafting at AVTI loses teaching post. Spanish and math positions cut or reconfigured. Junior High Curriculum project ends with two positions terminated. multiple staff contracts canceled as retirees and resignations noted. A $2,197 high school auditorium rewiring change order approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Gish
District 31
Area Vocational Technical Institute
AVTI
Thomas Langan
John R. Balkowitsch III
Lou Wangberg
Linda Aronson
Lorena G. Dale
Opal B. Wilkin
Dorothy Thompson
M. J. Haack
Marjorie Anderson
Bemidji State University
Anderson
State Bureau of Mediation
Park Rapids faces fate of Hubbard County social services building
Hubbard County board weighs selling the downtown Park Rapids masonry building vacated in 1975. A $25 000 bid from Raymond Larson of a Park Rapids furnace service prompts debate with supporters urging senior citizens use and opponents fearing maintenance and parking issues. The vote to table favors until Feb 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Doggett
Park Rapids
Hubbard County Social Services
Winston Manlove
Hubbard County Board of Commissioners
Park Rapids Furnance
Dwayne Foster
Senior Citizens Center
Social Services Department
Hubbard County
Senior Citizens’ Council
Foster
Raymond Larson
Mark Thomason
Manlove
Thomason
Gas prices seen rising through summer in New York
Oil industry experts in New York say gasoline prices will climb through the summer after a late month rise. Crude oil and refinery labor costs have increased this winter and the Federal Energy Administration relaxed cost-passing rules. Analysts expect about 3 cents higher average prices this year, with unleaded fuel rising most due to higher production costs and growing demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Federal Energy Administration
Passenger complaints surge to record 1976 total
Washington AP reports the Civil Aeronautics Board received 16,124 consumer complaints in 1976 about airline service. Delays baggage handling and overbookings topped issues with 2,504 reservations problems and 1,192 complaints from ticket holding passengers denied seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Kennedy Slaying Probe Faces House Panel Showdown
The House assassinations committee braces for a clash between Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez and chief counsel Richard A. Sprague as it weighs dropping its 1963 Kennedy murder probe amid boxy budget fights and disputes over investigation methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
John F. Kennedy
Henry B. Gonzalez
D-Tex
Richard A. Sprague
Gonzalez
Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Sprague
Airport zoning board weighs state office building site
The Airport Zoning Board of Adjustment meets Thursday at 4 30 p m in City Hall to decide on variances for a proposed 30 000 square foot state office building on five acres west of the First Baptist Church on Highway 2 in Bemidji within landing zone B. The plan, by United Properties for the state Department of Administration, would house about 150 people, exceeding current zoning limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberly K. Wood
Senate
Minnesota
Wangberg
Citizens Advisory Committee
Ellerbe
Frank Goodell
Bob Tucker
Airport Zoning Board of Adjustment
State Department of Administration
Bemidji
Doug St. Onge
Jim Welle
Welle and Assoc
First Baptist Church
Highway 2
Welle
United Properties
St. Paul
Bill Strasinski
St. Onge
Beltrami County Opens Office For Absentee Voters
The Beltrami County auditor will open 8 10:30 a.m. Monday to aid absentee voting for the 7th District special election. Only the auditor’s office is open, with ballots mailed from the main post office to reach precincts by Tuesday. Four candidates appear on Tuesday’s ballot: Arlan Stangeland Mike Sullivan Jim Born and Jack Bibeau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beltrami
Jim Thoreen
Thoreen
Auditor
Bob Bergland
U.S
Arlan Stangeland
Mike Sullivan
DFL
Jim Born
Jack Bibeau
Wolf resolution advances in Minnesota House subcommittee
A House subcommittee approved a resolution asking the federal government to delist the timber wolf from endangered status and return control to Minnesota. The measure, backed by Irv Anderson, faced opposition from Sierra Club and Audubon officials who argued habitat and other factors, not wolves, drive deer declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
House
Irv Anderson
International Falls
Environment and Natural Resources Committee
Anderson
Glan Sherwood
DFL
Pine River
Sherwood
Sierra Club
National Audubon Society
Charles Dayton
The
Minnesota
Dayton
U.S. Interior Department
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Kenneth Nichols
Martin J. Fortunak
Mark Isham
E. Howard Dickey, Jr
Hubbard County Social Services Building
Senior Citizens
Gerald Paul
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Crow Wing Lake
Crow Wing Township
Paul
City of
Heartland Homes
Cass
Northwestern
Pioneer
Chris Mattison
Deana Pink
Darry Pink
Kelliher
Northomne
Auditors
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